On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 05:54:08 -0700 William Tu <[email protected]> wrote:
> The patch adds ERSPAN type II tunnel support. The implementation > is based on the draft at https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-foschiano-erspan-01 > One of the purposes is for Linux box to be able to receive ERSPAN > monitoring traffic sent from the Cisco switch, by creating a ERSPAN > tunnel device. In addition, the patch also adds ERSPAN TX, so traffic > can also be encapsulated into ERSPAN and sent out. > > The implementation reuses the key as ERSPAN session ID, and > field 'erspan' as ERSPAN Index fields: > ./ip link add dev ers11 type erspan seq key 100 erspan 123 \ > local 172.16.1.200 remote 172.16.1.100 > > Signed-off-by: William Tu <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Vohra <[email protected]> > Cc: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> > Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <[email protected]> Waiting until ERSPAN is upstream in kernel (net-next).
